Trinity Lodge. J R M Butler's 'Reform Bill', death of Bramall, news of Malcolm and Dennis Robertson.
Translations of six poems by Martial and one by Archilochus, with dates and places of composition and publication. Letter from [Andrew Sydenham] Farrar [Gow] to Dennis Robertson, 23 Aug 1959, advising him to offer the pieces to Trinity College Library, and Robertson's letter to the Librarian.
Wilson, Sir Henry Francis (1859-1937), knight, barrister and civil servantWrites on the occasion of Robertson's marriage, referring to the 'two wonders' produced by getting married in one's middle age: the question of how one existed so long unmarried, 'and 'how this strange mingling of lives ever came about.' MS copy of 'part of a letter' in Nora Sidgwick's hand, with note that Mrs James Robertson showed her the letter on 11 October 1908, when she brought her youngest son [Dennis Holme Robertson] to make her acquaintance on his entering Trinity College.
Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (1845-1936), college headLetters from B. Goulding Brown, Sir Ernest Barker, Betty Behrens, Harold E. Butler, Sir M. S. D. Butler, Sir Herbert Butterfield, Sir G. N. Clark, V. H. Galbraith, G. P. Gooch, Gerald Graham, Michael Grant, H. Lauterpacht, Belinda Norman-Butler, Sir F. M. Powicke, Sir D. H. Robertson, F. A. Simpson, Humphrey Sumner, Norman Sykes, G. M. Trevelyan, Sir C. K. Webster, and E. L. Woodward.
King’s College, Cambridge.—The contention in Abbati’s book (The Unclaimed Wealth; see 2/237) may have something behind it, but its exposition is muddled.
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King’s College, Cambridge
22nd January, 1926.
Dear Pethick Lawrence,
When I looked through Abbati’s book I had the impression that there was something behind the contention which he was trying to sustain. You will find something which I think is not entirely disconnected from Abbati’s point in a little book of D. H. Robertson’s, which will be published shortly. But, on the other hand, I felt that, as expounded by Abbati, it was all a fearful muddle—truth mingled with error—so that it was almost impossible to disentangle how far he was right and how far wrong.
Like so many recent writers on monetary theory, he is, I think, in a position of perceiving for a good reason that the orthodox theory won’t do, yet not clear enough in his head to criticise coherently, or to build up an alternative which will hold water.
Yours sincerely,
J M Keynes
F. W. Pethick Lawrence, Esq., M.P.,
11 Old Square,
Lincoln’s Inn,
W.C.2.
Chaired a debate on the Poor Law, Poland, Geoffrey Tower is to lecture on the poets of the reformation, hopes no Newnhamites will attend and cause them to be curtailed, Winstanley has revolutionised history, Malcolm Bullock and Dennis Robertson, Robertson has resigned his post with the OTC.
The Treasury. Thanks for J R M Butler's good wishes on his being elected to the chair of economics.
Hopes to be able to work with Butler on his return to Cambridge, has written to A C Pigou that he will lecture at Cambridge if he can be sure of a secure livelihood thereby.
Presumes Trinity does not want him to return, will get in touch with the WEA on his return with a view to lecturing, Winstanley, Burnaby and Bragg all seem to be back at Trinity.
Minden Barracks, Deepcut, Surrey. Methods of passing the time, leave in England, Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians'.
45 Chesterton Road - 'Romany' letter from Dennis Robertson, Rosalind [Murray]'s bookplate.
Turf Club, Cairo. Dennis [Robertson] visited DAW, deep-seated animosity between G H Hardy and G T Lapsley, Lapsley will make a good tutor.